Store clerk suspected in lottery ticket theft

Posted: Saturday, June 03, 2006

A convenience store clerk, who failed to show up for work Thursday, is being called the suspect in the theft of nearly $13,000 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets over the past month, Athens-Clarke police said Friday.

An employee, who was auditing the Golden Pantry at 125 Tallassee Road, told police he found $12,899 worth of scratch tickets unaccounted for since the last audit May 1. The man told police that the clerk who failed to show up for work was the only person who had a key to the lock box in the back of the store where the tickets were kept.